Syntax Error at end of file

[Skip Montanaro]

    Skip> In a similar thread which occurred just a few days ago it was
    Skip> observed (by Tim Peters, I think) that the set of acceptable
    Skip> characters at any particular point in the parse is big, so
    Skip> enumerating them in the error message would be counterproductive
    Skip> and would just serve to confuse the issue in most cases.

    Greg> But in the case of an unclosed triple quote, the scanner surely
    Greg> knows (or could remember) where the beginning of it was!

True enough.  I was responding to what I thought was a general request.

I patched the scanner to distinguish EOF during triple-quoted string
scanning and EOL during single-quoted string scanning.  I'll apply them to
the CVS source when I have a better Internet connection.

Skip